A ragtag gang of teens teams up with a neighboring girl gang when a major cartel moves into town, threatening their families, their turf, and the community they've worked so hard to protect. ***** Cash West formed the Seven 20s - a gang of six overzealous teens with guns - to keep his tiny, crime-infested town in nowhere California safe. His methods are unorthodox and frankly illegal, but the town loves his Robin Hood heroics. However, the gang gets more than they bargained for when the Mendoza cartel rolls into town, determined to knock them off the map. As the threat hits closer to home, Cash has no choice but to team up with his ex-girlfriend Tiana's neighboring girl gang, the Hearts of Spades. Soon allies become enemies, families get trapped in the crossfire, and romance brews as Cash fights to unravel a massive conspiracy that puts everyone that matters to him at risk. When the stakes are life and death, will the gangs be able to overcome an enemy more powerful than any of them could have predicted? Book One of The Seven Twenties Series Content and Trigger Warning: contains violence, drug use, mentions of domestic abuse, and mature themes.

(Free to read + a paid bonus chapter) In a time when kidnapping is a common occurrence, Nora is about to become her father's science experiment. Nora believes she's starting a new job, working alongside her father, but instead, she's trapped inside of a dream with other humans. Besides for a small group of dreamers called Lucid, no one realizes anything is wrong with their new world. But dreams reveal who someone really is, even the secrets they didn't know, and Nora is not an exception. Charlie's father, Richard Pace, is the lead scientist. As a Lucid, Charlie is ordered by his father time and again to betray his own kind. And Nora is his next missions. But when Charlie discovers just how far his father's plans for Nora go, he'll have to choose between his freedom or his morals. Is it possible to escape when you don't even know you're trapped? Winner of the Candice Coghill award and the Royal Palm Literary award.

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No one suspects teenagers. Well, they do. For things like graffiti on school lockers. Smoking in parks. They don't suspect teenagers for hacking into watertight government mainframes and stealing top secret defence files without so much as a digital footprint. Seven. Separate. Times. And no one suspected seven high school boys to be the final secretive Unit of The Dark Triad. Until, new girl, Eliza, walks through their school gates in their final year of high school and, inexplicably, the genius but dark and stony-hearted hacker, Lee Jeno, becomes obsessed with winning her heart. Shadows are stirring in The Dark Triad, though. Their biggest, most risky project could be upon them and the disastrous events of last year are still lingering. One wrong step could spell the end of them all but Jeno just can't shake his attraction and when a twisted turn of events forces him and Eliza into close quarters, Eliza comes closer and closer to uncovering Jeno's crooked second life. With secrets that have the power to tear them apart, jeopardise her life, ruin his friends and take everything he's ever worked for.